Informatics Institute

UvA and SURFsara organise course on High Performance Computing and Big Data

11 October 2017

From 2 January - 2 February 2018 researchers from the UvA and high performance computing experts from the SURFsara organize a course where researchers and engineers can learn about HPC, discuss their specific problems with experts and start to solve them on SURFsara’s state-of-the-art computing facilities.

Objective

The objective of this course is to introduce individuals with limited programming knowledge to various HPC facilities. At the end of the course, they will be able to use them avoiding common pitfalls, thus saving them money and time.

Why this course?

Researchers and engineers from industry and academia alike frequently experience their daily work to be impeded by physical limitations of their ICT equipment: processing and storage capacity, visualization facilities and their integration. They feel that up-scaling to high performance computing (HPC) facilities would be very beneficial to their work, but don’t know how to do this and lack the time to investigate their options.

Content

The course is taught in English and is composed of a number of independent modules touching on various HPC and Big Data issues:

Introduction to Unix, distributed systems, and Big Data

Using state-of-the-art Super Computers (with hands-on on the National Super Computer Cartesius and the Lisa cluster)

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